Colombia Liberal senator compares Uribe aide to Nazi propaganda minister
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Colombia Liberal senator compares Uribe aide to Nazi propaganda minister
posted by Adriaan Alsema
Sep 19, 2013
A senator of Colombia’s Liberal Party lashed out at political opponent Alvaro Uribe on Thursday for putting the cousin of slain drug lord Pablo Escobar on the former president’s senate candidate list for the 2014 elections.
Senator Juan Manuel Galan, son of assassinated presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan, spared no superlatives to reject the candidacy of Escobar’s cousin and Uribe’s former president adviser Jose Obdulio Gaviria.
The Liberal politician compared Gaviria’s influence on Uribe to that of Nazi Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, who orchestrated Adolf Hitler’s antisemitic campaign that eventually led to the death of millions of Jews during Wold War II.
“The country knows what the role and the presence of Jose Obdulio Gaviria in the government of former President Uribe meant since he was (like) the minister of propaganda in Hitler’s time, Joseph Goebbels, carrying out the most hateful propaganda scheme,” Galan told press.
According to the Liberal politician, the candidacy of the cousin of Colombia’s most famous drug lord ever is a slap in the face of victims of Escobar who ordered the assassination of thousands who opposed his rule over the South American country’s underworld.
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http://colombiareports.co/colombia-liberal-senator-compares-uribe-aide-nazi-propaganda-minister/
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Jose Obdulio Gaviria
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